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Pilot Officer WILLIAM GEORGE ELBY

Service Number: 118893
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

12 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 07 September 1942

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

16. G. 5.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William George and Emily Florence Elby; husband of Evelyn Adelaide Elby, of Stonebridge Park, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription "LEST WE FORGET"

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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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